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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

... will award approximately $83 million over five years in support of the first cohort of scientists. Awards ranging from $600,000 to $1.8 million, including indirect costs, will ...

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

... with the method already being used to treat conditions from epilepsy to depression. But what really happens when ... the brain should be targeted to treat different diseases. A new study led by the University...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers As a first-of-its-kind ... human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a finalist in the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Zegar Family Foundation Supports 'Sunday in the Park' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal at City Center

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10/04/2016

Zegar Family Foundation Supports 039 ;Sunday in the Park 039 ; Starring Jake Gyllenhaal at City Center New ... of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 039 ;s Sunday in...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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01 Dec 2016

Grantee-Centered Capacity Building Is What You Think It Is – And More

Thursday, December 1, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:30am

This program is the launch of a Capacity Building series for 2017. All funders want the ... supportive to grantees. Join us for this kick-off program in a series of Philanthropy New York programs...

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2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease

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10/05/2016

... Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in which cells eat parts of themselves to survive and stay ... human beings, which could fundamentally change everything...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50M to Museum of Science

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10/18/2016

... Everyone around here knows Michael Bloomberg as the kid from Medford who went on to do big things. He built a multibillion-dollar company and served as a three-term mayor of New York. But...

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Difficulties Accessing Medical Records Will Soon Be Outdated, Says Commonwealth Fund

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10/21/2016

... records for fear of malpractice, and to protect patients from bad news, but that’s changing as medical culture ... records now have patient portals where patients can peer in and see lab results and other...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities

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10/25/2016

... Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities Nashville is among five ... vehicles initiative launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York and the Washington, D.C...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season

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11/03/2016

... at 8 pm. Tickets are $25. Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of ... New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, by ...

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Gap Inc. Connects Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

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11/04/2016

... strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. ... U.S., nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the...

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

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11/04/2016

... How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities As interest in measuring and understanding ... investments in community development continues to grow, a...

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Senior Advisor to Pinkerton Writes Editorial: How Do We Become One Nation?

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11/08/2016

... How Do We Become One Nation? How does America come back from the most bitter, nasty and divisive presidential campaign in memory? How do we become one nation? Invoking the legacy ... is rigged. Trump may be...

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NYS Health's Derek Coy Explores the Role of Private-Public Partnerships in Serving Veterans

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11/11/2016

... Explores the Role of Private-Public Partnerships in Serving Veterans Despite hearing far too often only about ... wisdom propagate the false notion that veterans as a group are broken, it contributes to the...

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Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'

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11/16/2016

... Into 039 ;Women 039 ;s Building 039 ; Finding affordable real estate in New York City can take forever. Just ask Gloria Steinem ... feminist activists who searched for...

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Gender Justice

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Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

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11/29/2016

... Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew ... of being preserved forever by being digitized and reissued in...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’

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11/29/2016

... Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’ David Kaiser, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, and Lee ... of the Rockefeller Family Fund, wrote an article in the New York Review of Books calling out...

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Commonwealth Fund Releases Study on Making Health Data Useful to Patients Through Open APIs

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12/07/2016

... to view and share their data readily and rapidly. Picture a mobile phone app that updates a patient’s doctors and ... a prescription is changed, or that allows test results from...

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New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

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12/07/2016

... of the eighth annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics. The awards recognize ... high schools who achieve superb outcomes and promote a love for science and mathematics, often...

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